We share best practice, generously.
In collaboration with the practitioners who choose to participate, we share what one place learns with the next, including the high seas, to increase effectiveness and durability for all.
Relationship is the method.
Management at scale can be lonely work, carried out across vast distances. That is exactly why relationships matter. No single team or organization can do this alone, so we run on relationships and move at the speed of trust, tending them deliberately. Rich and resilient relationships are the real infrastructure of best practice.
New frontier.
Global attention is shifting to the high seas, and the field of large-scale marine management within national waters is feeling the shift. Our response is to increase effectiveness and durability for all. Our current approach is to share the hard-won lessons from managers who've worked at sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, Papahānaumokuākea, and Motu Motiro Hiva with the people building high seas MPAs.
We know all too well that one size does not fit all. The high seas need the lessons of national waters, not a copy of them. We do not seek to manage the high seas. Our approach is to connect the scales generously, sharing capacity and lessons among people, agencies, and communities, so durable management reaches across all of them.
Six ways we strengthen the field
Declaring a large ocean area is not the same as managing one well. The real work is inside the boundary.
- Convene the people who manage the ocean at scale — a neutral, trusted space no one else holds.
- Synthesize ground-truthed lessons into shared field intelligence, and carry them back to the people doing the work.
- Bridge — acting as a knowledge bridge: capacity-sharing and lessons learned between people, agencies, and governments, from national waters to the high seas.
- Strengthen durability — championing the best-practice management that helps guard large ocean places against degazettement and rollback.
- Center Indigenous knowledge in large-scale ocean management and governance.
- Catalyze the field — growing the community of practitioners and the resources that sustain it.
See the practice in the publications.
The lessons that make this work possible live in the real-world experience of national large-scale areas, the only ground-truthed examples of managing the ocean at scale the world has.
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